2006 – Penang Players Music & Drama Society

A Chip in the Sugar
Director: Ian Kerr

Actor
John Cadman

Anorak of Fire
Director Ian Kerr

Actor
Alan Smith

Comedy Double Bill

Date/s: 4th, 5th, 6th May 2006

Synopsis

A Chip in the Sugar by Alan Bennett
Graham Whittaker is a nervous and isolated, middle-aged man who lives with his mother in Yorkshire. He is a shy man unable to manage a normal life in everyday society. Life is relatively uneventful until one of his mother’s acquaintances of many years earlier turns up out of the blue.

Anorak of Fire by Stephen Dinsdale
Gus Gascoigne is a naïve man and totally absorbed by his passion for Train Spotting, a phenomenon mainly limited to the British male. Gus shares his history as a spotter, highlighting the joys and thrills of his rather unusual pastime.

A Chip In The Sugar

Anorak Of Fire

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All In The Timing

by David Ives

Date/s: 13th, 14th January 2006

Synopsis

Sure Thing
Two people meet in a café and find their way through a conversational minefield as an off-stage bell interrupts their false starts, gaffes, and faux pas, Allowing them unlimited “re-dos” until the ‘perfect” pattern for falling love is found.

Words Words Words
Recalls the philosophical adage that three monkeys typing into infinity will sooner or later produce Hamlet and asks: what would monkeys talk about at their typewriters?

Variation on the Death of Trotsky
Shows us the Russian revolutionary on the day of his demise, desperately trying to cope with the mountain-climber’s axe he’s discovered in this head

Sure Thing
Director: Alan Smith

Actors
Adeline Ong.......Betty
Khaz.......Bill

Words Words Words
Director: Alan Smith

Actors
Chong Chi-Ren.......Swift
Lucille Dass.......Kafka
Shadia.......Milton

Variation on the Death of Trotsky
Director: Alan Smith

Actors
Philip Yeoh.......Trotsky
May Lin.......Mrs Trotsky
Oh Chin Eng.......Ramon

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